What many of us openly hypothesized immediately following the September 11 Benghazi terrorist attack is finally, after eight months of tooth-pulling, established fact: The Obama administration’s oft-repeated story that Islamophobia — in this instance, an anti-Islamic Internet video — provoked a spontaneous “protest” resulting in the murder of four Americans was a calculated fraud in the service of the president’s reelection campaign.

What is only now coming to light, though, is that President Obama’s blame-the-video gambit was also disingenuous when it came to the rioting at the U.S. embassy in Cairo, which also occurred on September 11, several hours before the Benghazi attack.